105. ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY: If you want to build a ship

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) was a French aviator and author, famous for writing and illustrating the philosophical picture book The Little Prince, which is the most-read and translated book in the French language and was voted France’s greatest book of the 20th century.

Saint-Exupéry began flying when he joined the French Air Force in 1921. By 1926 he had left the army and helped pioneer some of the first air-mail routes between Paris and Dakar. In 1935, while trying to break the speed record between Paris and Saigon, he crashed and was left stranded in the Sahara desert for three days with a minimum of supplies. Although the experience almost killed him, it became the inspiration for the opening scene in The Little Prince. Saint-Exupéry later flew reconnaissance missions during World War II even though he was eight years above the maximum age and, after leaving for a mission on 31 July, 1944, was never seen again.

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If you’ve never read “Le petit prince” you need to.
It’s one of the books that if everyone who read truly understood them, the world would be a better place….

If you plan to read it, you must know that the little prince is real… I don’t care what my reason says to this one, I believe Saint-Exupéry when he says that he is real… because you know, only a real person could feel the need to have a lamb or the need for fellowship…

I totally agree with you Charles. I’m french, and this was my favourite book as a child. I re-read it recently, and I felt again the power of this little book. I believe the little prince is the child sleeping within us, who only needs to be awoken.
I also believe that everyone should read this book, because it truly changes who you are and the way you look at the world.

About this quote, I think people are over-interpreting it. It is more about the sea than enslavement, about the particular power of the sea which, as Cousteau said, “once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever”.

I do not understand why you’ve paired this quote (whose context I don’t know, but I presume Saint-Exupery wasn’t writing the Commandments of Slaveowning) with an Egyptian slave context.
Do you think that all slaves need is a longing that is conveniently aligned with the free work that their enslavers want them to do? Is that a good result for you? The comic sure makes it seem like it.
And what were your artistic choices, exactly, when you chose to differentiate the Egyptian boat-builder in hairstyle and facial features from the slaves?

I like Zen Pencils comics, but the images accompanying this quote are really troubling.

I agree with Ellen, it should show him working with the people. Everyone has to yearn for it, including the leader, so he should be amongst them working. The way this is portrayed says, “Brain Wash” people into doing the work.

Wait wait wait. Ellen, what makes you think those people are slaves? Because they are doing hard labor work that they might not enjoy? What makes you think they are Egyptian? The color of their skin? You have made a lot of assumptions based on YOUR stereotypes, applied them (falsely) to this illustration, and then chastised the artist for said stereotypes. You need to ask yourself why you made those assumptions about the illustration, and if you are truly offended, get over it.
Gavin– I think this is a great illustration. It is about inspiring people, being a true leader. You have captured that magnificently. Not that I have to tell you, but ignore the naysayers. I have always hated critics. It’s funny, as soon as I read this comment, i thought of one of your previous illustrations– Theodore Roosevelt’s Man In the Arena (https://zenpencils.com/comic/theodore-roosevelt-the-man-in-the-arena/).
This also made me think of a quote for one of your next illustrations– http://imgur.com/EX5v4

Wait wait wait. What makes you think these people are slaves– they are doing hard work that they might not enjoy? What makes you say they are Egyptian– the color of their skin, their attire, their hair? Seems like you have taken YOUR prejudices and stereotypes, applied them to an illustration, then chastised the artist for said stereotypes. That is absolutely ridiculous. Figure out why you automatically made those assumptions, figure out why you got so offended, and get over it.
Gavin– I think the illustration is fabulous. It is about inspiring people that you are in charge of, and being a true leader, and I believe you captured that wonderfully. Disregard the naysayers.
It’s funny, as soon as I read Ellen’s comment I thought of your Roosevelt “Man In the Arena” rendition (https://zenpencils.com/comic/theodore-roosevelt-the-man-in-the-arena/)– Fitting, isn’t it?
I also thought of another quote for you to illustrate by Stephen Fry–
It’s now very common to hear people say, ‘I’m rather offended by that.’ As if that gives them certain rights; it’s actually nothing more….. It’s simply a whine. It’s no more than a whine. ‘I find that offensive,’ it has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. ‘I am offended by that.’ Well so … what?

I think it’s a beautiful choice of graphic – does that mean I advocate slavery? No of course not… As Jake said, and Sir Fry, if your offended, your going to have to sort that out for yourself and maybe figure why you felt that way. Amazing work Gavin as always and currently quite fitting too.

Interestingly, Exupery wrote very movingly about early 20th Century slavery in ‘Wind Sand Stars’. I recommend it to all on this thread. I’m paraphrasing, ‘coz I can’t be bothered looking up the text, but one of his conclusions after observing the way inevitable death of a starvation of a slave too old to work was treated in one community was that every death is a tragedy, not because death isn’t inevitable (because, of course, it is inevitable) but because every human being contains an internal universe of their own experiences, an entire world that is unknowable by any of us other human beings, and so the death of any single human is the death of an entire world. Them’s words to build a life on, I ‘reckon.

I don’t find this troubling.
These people ar workers who are given what they believe is a medial, physical task. Sure – they have orders barked at them; but that doesnt make them slaves. Think of the last time you were given a ridiculous deadline!!

Then they are shown the ocean and realize there is nothing medial about the work – and they WANT to learn and work becuas now they know why they are doing what they’re doing. Their boss is no longer their ‘master’, but their leader.

I like it.

I’d love to see the bigger picture, be more passionate, and not just meet demands that other people put on me.

That’s incredible that you create that aspect as well. I think it’s easy to ignore the type and focus on the images, but in this case especially the type is also integral to the message. I hope one day I can become better at hand lettering. I never learned it before but I think I’m going to start.

I like it. Nothing suggests the men are slaves, except perhaps the mistaken accounts some of us got in school. Recent evidence makes clear Egyptian pyramid workers were paid. I see everyone’s point, but I think you did a great job focusing on the quote. As with all good ideas, it inspires us to think further, the way everybody is. Thanks, Gavin.

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Don’t force feed us math, history or chemistry, make us WANT to learn, show us how it is useful, show us the beauty in it and then, we will start asking the right questions. Only then, we will ask you to teach us.

Another perfect hit into the park. As someone who struggled through public school and never really appreciated education until I “found the ocean” in college this hits home. Keep up the great work, and thanks!

Sigh. All I had to do was go to google and type in ‘le petit prince’ text and lo and behold here is the link:http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300771h.html
Copy and paste it into your favourite browser and VOILA – le francais version with the original pictures! Sigh… You commenting-type people are so difficult to… er… motivate. Actually… The OCEAN OF THE INTERNET! There it is before you… Did you yearn enough to find the answer yourself??? I wonder… Actually, Charles Ton, let me know if you did find it for yourself – I’m intrigued… And, vive la difference!

Copy and paste it into your favourite browser and VOILA – le francais version with the original pictures! Sigh… You commenting-type people are so difficult to… er… motivate. Actually… The OCEAN OF THE INTERNET! There it is before you… Did you yearn enough to find the answer yourself??? I wonder… Actually, Charles Ton, let me know if you did find it for yourself – I’m intrigued… And, vive la difference!

I absolutely love the message. I don’t know what it has to do with The Little Prince (one of my lifelong favorite books) but it resonates with the profound truth about leadership that is so lacking nowdays in a work place. If companies’ leadership embraced this thought, they would get so much more back from the employees. I love the analogy with the Egyptian slaves. That is how it feels at work when I am given assignments “on the blind” without a bigger picture or context. Well done. This is one of my favorite posters so far.

I am a teacher at an International School in Thailand. I teach Grade 2. I love Zen Pencil comics – when the comic is appropriate I like to show my students. They always come in excited when they see a Zen Pencil comic projected up on the smart board! We have a discussion about the message, make predictions (as I scroll down to the end) and talk about new words and ideas. I really liked this comic because students don’t often know why they are working and learning about certain things. They don’t have the foresight yet to see how its going to be relevant to their future happiness. As a teacher this comic reminded me to always be as transparent as possible. School is not just a boring stand alone torturous nightmare that all kids have to endure because their parents say so – it’s the beginning of this magical journey we call life. As a teacher I believe above all, its my duty to “teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea”.

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I find it so interesting that the assumption is automatically that they are slaves. What makes them slaves? They aren’t even a different color from the guy leading them.

I saw this as very much like my job – where the attitude is “Do this because I tell you to.” Who likes to work like that? But give me a reason why (other than “Here’s some money at the end of the pay period”) – find some way to make me WANT to do the work I’m doing, and I’ll jump into it with a fervor that will surprise you.

But nothing in this makes them slaves. Hell, the very fact that he takes them to the water and shows them, inspiring them, leads one to believe that they are employees. (And knowing a little bit about ship building, you don’t do that with unskilled labor. And Gav is smart enough to be aware of that.) The people seeing them as slaves should check their own prejudices out before accusing someone of sharing them.

I’m not going to chide Gavin for making this as I believe his intentions were to inspire and do good. But the thing is, regardless of intent, we have represented here the same thing that many of us are going through today…ridiculously hard work while being promised a worthy pay off, only to be actually rewarded with more hard work while someone else reaps all the benefits. Look what’s happening here. We have a guy that wants a boat, and a bunch of guys (slaves or not) doing all the work for him. He takes them to the water and says…”Hey, you too can have this”. So, they do there thing, get the boat done, and look where they are…Rowing the boat, doing even more work, while the guy sits on the bow taking it all in. Sure they’re not getting beaten, but instead that Carrot is dangling in front of them always just out of reach.

Funny, Kieth Mc says “What makes them slaves? They aren’t even a different color from the guy leading them.” And then Kieth goes on to say “people seeing them as slaves should check their own prejudices out…”
Seems that Kieth thinks about the typical black american slave history, that the slave must be a different race than the master. Native American Indians kept other indians as slaves captured from other tribes. Roman Empire had “white” caucasian slaves with any other races. African tribes captured others from other tribes and made them slaves. Chinese enslaved their own kind at times for labor. Slavery is not an American invention. But that’s all people seem to learn about.

Great Quote; This reminds me of something I said a few days ago to the parents of a student of mine:
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I’m a minister and this speaks to me about leadership. I don’t give my congregation orders (ha! I’d get fired), but I cajole and instruct and, I’m afraid, sometimes badger, and none of that is usually good leadership. Or I just get bogged down in the technical aspects of what we are trying to do. St. Exupery’s words are a reminder that what people need is vision. When we have a vision of what we long for, we not only have all the motivation we need (which orders and instructions seldom provide), but we feel our own creativity being released, so that we come up with wonderful ways to build that ship, ways the leader would never have thought of.

P.S. I just learned about Zen Pencils today, when a friend linked to #100, and I love it. Thank you so much for your wonderful work!

Great Quote; This reminds me of something I said a few days ago to the parents of a student of mine:
“teach someone science, and they’ll answer the questions you throw at them. Inspire a someone to do science, and they will lose the feeling of ignorance.

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